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For 7,775 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 33% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 64% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 59
Highest review score: 100 Mulholland Dr.
Lowest review score: 0 Jojo Rabbit
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,349 out of 7775
  2. Mixed: 1,493 out of 7775
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7775
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  1. The Dark Horse
    Despite the occasional cliché, this film mostly feels as messy as life, and as movingly complicated.
  2. The Gift
    Joel Edgerton's boilerplate direction is a blessing for a genre increasingly saddled with literal visualizations of madness.
  3. The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs
    The film speaks lyrically to a peoples’ determination to find a meaningful way to live in a rapidly changing modern world.
  4. Dear Mr. Brody
    The film poignantly draws a straight line from the economic anxieties of the past straight to the present.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    I Killed My Mother
    I Killed My Mother is a film best heard than seen, as the earnest, nimble scrubbiness of Dolan's screenplay is ill-served by his conceited visuals, an aesthetic mode that feels insecurely borrowed from perfume commercials and the work of Jean-Luc Godard and Wong Kar-Wai.
  6. Victoria
    One can chart the very moment that Victoria's existence slips out of the routine into the nightmarish, and there's no escape by temporal omission.
  7. Broker
    Even when it edges toward sentimentality, Broker is redeemed by Kore-eda Hirokazu’s customarily bracing humanism.
  8. Queen of Earth
    Every beautiful, resonant image in writer-director Alex Ross Perry's film is fraught with neurotic, diaphanous riddles.
  9. Paddington
    The film recalls its stylistic forbears at their best: flowing with whimsy, but never at the expense of the beating heart of its human (and animal) characters.
  10. Women Talking
    For better and worse, writer-director Sarah Polley’s adaptation of Women Talking is most noteworthy for its imagery.
  11. Mississippi Grind
    Ryan Boden and Anna Fleck convey an engagingly low-key atmosphere, pervasive with wayward souls haunted by poor choices.
  12. The League
    At its most engrossing, the film vibrantly sketches out the historical roots of the Negro baseball leagues.
  13. Mother of George
    Beautiful, poetic, and hard-hitting without the use of excessive force and deeply layered with evolving and regional nuances of feminine experience
  14. Wetlands
    For its general ludic obsession with all things generally thought of as disgusting, the German film Wetlands is stuck in the anal stage.
  15. Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness
    Not only sets up the writer's life as representative of the transitions of early modern Jewish life, but posits his oeuvre as an ongoing chronicle of the shift from a vibrant, unified Yiddish culture to a fractured world-in-exile.
  16. Las Acacias
    This lovely film is ultimately an articulation of something at once simple and universal: the discontent of traveling through life with sad resignation.
  17. A River Changes Course
    A delicate documentary about a way of life that's slowly disappearing, yet gives way to nothing new.
  18. Expedition to the End of the World
    A visual pleasure, and refreshingly free of message or structure, but it leaves an aftertaste similar to that of an awkward party spent among intellectuals.
  19. Icaros: A Vision
    The film has a calming and inevitable quality, and a leisurely sense of pacing that favors image and sound over narrative propulsion, that slows our own biorhythms, fostering our sensorial empathy with the passengers.
  20. The Graduates
    While Hannah Peterson, with her emphasis on quiet moments and mementos mori, effectively suffuses The Graduates with a mournful absence of life, she also reminds us of the warmth that can be so typical of high school.
  21. Wild Tales
    Each of the six vignettes that make up this unusually energetic anthology pertains to the methods of calculated mass dehumanization that are (barely) hidden beneath the practices of social institutions.
  22. Corpus Christi
    It’s within the murky realm of self-doubt and spiritual anxiety that it’s at its most audacious and compelling.
  23. Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
    It isn’t long into the film when the hagiographic soundbites from famous interviewees become the dominant mode.
  24. Buoyancy
    The film never quite pushes beyond the archetypal nature of its scenario to fully unearth its characters’ psychological turmoil.
  25. The Royal Hotel
    In this film of clammy anxiety, the potential of male violence is made to feel as scary as the actual article.
  26. The Story of Film: A New Generation
    The films collected in A New Generation speak for themselves even when they don’t necessarily slot neatly into Mark Cousins’s curlicue thinking.
  27. Best of Enemies
    Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville reinforce the very circumstances they outwardly condemn.
  28. On Body and Soul
    On Body and Soul's fusion of romance, comedy, ultraviolence, and political commentary has the logic of a lucid dream.
  29. Buzzard
    This is a study of a man who's hard to like, harder to dismiss, and impossible to pigeonhole.
  30. 24 Frames
    Movement and progress are the organizing principles throughout Abbas Kiarostami's final, posthumously released film.
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